IMDEX Presents: Xploration Tech Symposium | Vancouver 2027

Open Coffee Club is a casual gathering of people involved/interested in founding, operating or funding startups. The vibe is more hangout than event and provides people with a regular time and location to talk shop, discuss news, ask questions and and meet others in the startup community they may only see occasionally at more formal events. Location: Nelson the Seagull, 315 Carrall St, Vancouver, BC V6B 2J4 Once You Arrive: You can locate us by looking for the table with the small LED display: "Vancouver Founders Open Coffee Club." Google Maps link to Nelson the Seagull Contact Steve at sdancho@hotmail.com to get a link to join our WhatsApp discussion board. Thanks to our sponsors! Voyer Startup Lawyers - voyerlaw.com See you there!

Bring what you're building Cascadia Builders Club is a Pacific Northwest community for people building hardware and software. This is show-and-tell for builders: In this meetup, a handful of local builders take the floor for short, hands-on demos of what they're actually making (startups, apps, hardware, side projects, tools), and then we hang out and meet the people behind the work. No pitch, no hype reels, just real things and the people making them. Come see what's being built around the north bank of the Columbia, ask questions, and find your people. Want to demo? We're looking for builders to show what they're working on, hardware or software, shipped or half-built. Demos run about 10-15 minutes. Demos this month Support Oregon’s Next Generation of Innovators Oregon Robotics Tournament & Outreach Program (ORTOP) brings hands-on FIRST robotics and STEM experiences to thousands of students across Oregon. These programs help students build technical, teamwork, and problem-solving skills while introducing them to education and career pathways in Oregon’s growing industries. We invite the tech community to partner with us in developing local talent and helping young people see a future for themselves here in Oregon. ORTOP board member Aaryn Curl will share a quick look at the current FIRST robotics season and the many ways you can get involved. Whether you have a few hours to volunteer, want to mentor a team, or work for a company looking for a meaningful way to invest in STEM education and Oregon’s future workforce, there is a place for you. Come learn how you can help inspire and support Oregon’s next generation of innovators, engineers, technologists, and problem-solvers. --- Colin McPike: Pike & Main is a mobile marketplace built exclusively for independent brick-and-mortar stores, helping shoppers find and buy from businesses in communities they want to support. Bio: Colin is the founder of Pike & Main. A product manager and former value engineer, he builds too

RSVP: https://luma.com/ztxxsa5o 🤖 TOKENS, BENCHMARKS & THE OPEN WEB 🤖 Join us at Northeastern University on Tuesday, November 24 for our last regular meetup of the year. This month we're getting practical about AI-assisted coding: how to stop burning money on tokens, and which models actually handle real Git work. Plus pizza, and plenty of time to hang out with the Vancouver JS crowd. 🎙️ Featured Talks: Shawn McKay (Sr Staff Engineer @ Amplitude, DevX lead): Death by a Thousand Tokens: How to Cut Your AI Coding Bill in Half (Without Cutting Corners). Context hygiene, output filtering, model tiering, caching and workflow design: concrete techniques that cut AI dev costs 60–90% with no loss in quality. You'll leave with a checklist you can use the next day. Chris Griffing (Developer Advocate @ GitKraken): Get Benched with GitBench. A recap of GitBench (gitbench.gitkraken.com), the benchmark for how well AI models handle real Git tasks: how it was built, how to read the results, and what jumps out of the stats. One more talk to be announced soon 👀 📅 Schedule: 5:30–6:00pm: Arrive and grab a slice 🍕 6:00–7:20pm: Talks & presentations 🎤 7:20–8:00pm: Mingle and network 🤝 💸 Interested in sponsoring an event? Reach out to us on LinkedIn. 🎤 Got a 5–15 min talk idea? Submit your proposal on our GitHub. Come for the JavaScript, stay for the community. 💛

Registration link: https://luma.com/lee79l0e Build, secure, scale: Developers and builders in the agentic era ​This DevFest season we invite you to reflect on some major shifts in the developer landscape. The role of professional developers is evolving from writing to reviewing code and orchestrating autonomous agents. You can do more, faster, with models and tools that are getting more and more powerful. At the same time, AI is opening the doors for everyone to be a solution builder. It means more people can solve more problems, bringing more diverse ideas to life than ever before. ​"Builders" use their skills and AI assistance to build apps, automate, optimize workflows and create solutions for any industry. They use developer tools but can work in different roles including product management or design. Gartner predicts that 80% of technology products and services will soon be built by people who are not professional software developers. In this world, a secure-by-default mindset is more important than ever. So is choosing the right models, platform and tools that match your needs and goals.

Come meet fellow game developers at LaSalle College Vancouver! A majority of the time will be reserved for mingling and trying out each other's games. The schedule usually goes as follows: 6:00pm - 7:15pm: Mingling 7:15pm - 7:45pm: Guest speakers 7:45pm - 9:00pm: Mingling continues This month's meetup will be held at LaSalle College, in the main lobby. You can access the lobby through the main entrance on the south side of the building. Upon entering the front door, check-in will be on your right, and the main event will be on your left. The college is right next to Renfrew Station, and the Central Valley Greenway, with many bike racks by the front door. Feel free to bring your laptop/console if you want to showcase your work. We'll have some tables/desks in the room to set up on. You do not need to ask permission, just bring your games! First come first serve, and please bring your own power bars. Want to be a speaker at one of these events? Get in touch with us through Discord or email! Join us in our Discord channel, where most of the conversation goes down. The organizers will also be much faster to respond through here: https://www.fullindie.com/discord Don't like to use Discord? Email us at admin@fullindie.com Want to be notified of these events via email? You can sign up for our newsletter from the front page of our website: https://www.fullindie.com/ See you all there!